:-)
It's only absurd when you take it to absurd lengths.
<absurd>
The deer in my backyard did not cause the problem. We did. Us old farts, that is. We're leaving it to you young folks as a parting gift. Navigable Arctic, beautiful Amazon deserts, the Miami scuba diving park, Lake Louisiana-Mississippi, the warm vast pastures of Greenland, a Pacific without all those bothersome traffic impediments.
I won't see 2100. I'll bet its real nice.
</absurd>
On the serious side, geometry makes global warming interesting. Currently most of the worlds food production happens in the mid-latitudes. Below them is desert (Mexico, Arizona, the Sahara, Central Australia, etc.). As the latitudes where crops grow most efficiently move towards the poles, there is less land to grow them on, because we live on a sphere. With an estimated 11 billion people living on the planet by 2100 (1.57 times as many people as today), and a 40% drop in the land available for farming, food production will have to be much more efficient.
Wheat currently turns 1% of the sunlight energy it gets into consumable calories. Sugarcane turns 8% of received energy into calories. Some of you might want to think about how to get those efficient photosynthesis pathways into wheat and other crop plants.
I'd do it, but us old folks have orders to report to the Soylent Green factory, input gate.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Matt Lawes <matt@insysx.com> wrote:
How much shall we charge each ruminant for farting methane (more potent greenhouse gas than CO2) into the atmosphere.Obviously when 'enslaved' as a farm animal the cruel overlord rancher/farmer can be billed, but what about the bison in Yellowstone (maybe they have sovereign immunity if Government owned?) And all those deer.....Theater of the absurd can easily overtake us.... thanks All Gore.>matt
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One can put a value on pollution. That's what carbon credits are all about. It worked for acid rain. Pollution credits were how we got sulfur scrubbers installed on all those power plants.
We could simply ban using any fossil fuel at all. And keep forming new governments every time it is attempted. Mitigating the harm allows them to stay in business, since the business no longer causes harm. There is an economic cost to mitigating the harm, which makes fossil fuels less competitive with clean alternatives, which helps promote those alternatives.
In the end, energy costs more for a while, which can cause economic slumps. But the cost of the pollution goes away, or at least is accounted for. If the cost of using fossil fuels is losing coastal cities and island nations, causing mass extinctions, losing farm productivity, dislocating populations, acidifying the oceans, and a long list of others, it isn't an economic slump, it is a long term investment.
Allowing carbon dioxide to pollute the global commons has an economic cost that is currently not being paid by the polluters. Rather than charge them for the actual costs, make them stop polluting. Collecting and storing the pollution is one way to do that, and we can leave it up to the polluters to find a way to make that work for them economically.
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